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If you want to build a super power, you must build a citizen first. Citizen building business is called "education". China is a major state, a regional power, but not a super power. Every farmer in America is working hard on his own, without anyone from any government telling him what to do, when to do it, or how to do it. It is Freedom and Democracy, built on common-sense. China can become a super power only when every citizen does the job and does it right perfectly, without anyone pressuring them to do so. In the US our job pressure is self-inflicted, not out of fear of the wrath of some perpetual government official. Government does not make us here in America, we make the government. That is why we are a super power, and China is not. It is not the guns and wall trophies. It is not the factories and buildings. It is the individual belief and practice of Democracy, Common sense, and true Freedom.

Great article. This made me doubt about the validity of historical studies that comes from Chinese academia and also the government... is it possible that fraud and forgery took place when interpreting certain hitorical incidents...?

Agree with most of it, and is suffering and frustrated by it. But, calling to the government for solution might be a dangerous idea and inconsiderate act. Government intervention in the academic field might well be the cause of all those problems; The Education Ministry is currently fighting to separate Politics and Education.

Giving the situation, I'd rather suggest that the Government should do nothing for intervention in China means the grave for creativity and individualism. If giving enough freedom, it will eventually correct itself.

But, judging by the recent tightening control of speech online, the outcome of everything here may not be optimistic after all.

"even a stupid would not say like this. paperwriting is a western invention, Chinese poeple never bothered to write so much nonsense bullshit."

The Chinese officials did indeed write papers, the infamous "8-legged Essays" which were mostly memorizations and plagiarisms of Confucius Analects, Mencius, Hanfeizi and many other scholars. To be an official in ancient China meant that students had to memorize and regurgitate philosophy in these extremely long papers for the imperial exams. By today's standards, such "education" would be considered as the equivalent of male cow faeces.

The Chinese work ethic is one of quick fixes, we see this in production, quality control and learning. So it does not surprise me that the quality of Chinese graduate work is subpar.

Why China and India did not made any progress in science?Why science born ed only in the west is different story.No doubt zero invented by India on which quantum theory developed and paper notes, printing,many explosive devises invented by China.They never converted them in technologies..Their philosophy of life prevented them from this adventure.Today also position is same that is why both countries are working for western countries as a bondage laborer.India as a cyber coolies and China as a hardware laborer Unfortunately both countries could not overcome from their philosophy of life

China's progress and it's increase in its GDP remains unparalleled and record holding over many years . They have beaten almost all the countries and economies in all the fields. Here they have tried their best and are still have the" instant article says" are trying to create records but here they will never beat Pakistanis .Pakistan is and claims to be the best friend of China . They should send their experts to teach them trick of the trade . Inspite of everything that both the countries may do or could do they would probably never be able to produce one like "Dr. Babar Awan"

It's very sad for Chinese to do so. As known for nearly all of students in so-called universities and colleges in China, their graduate discourses are full of cheat. They copy others' consolutions and even the whole articles. I am sure that there is no student who can claim that his/her graduation thesis is clear and witten only by himself/herself. What a sad society! Enforcement of regulatting academic field must be done immediately.

At least in Tang Jun's case, there is nothing academic. He is just a businessman.

It's not unusual for business people or politicians around the world to exaggerate their credentials in efforts to impress. This includes former Japanese prime minister Koizumi, among others.

Having said that, it's important to keep academic circle a clean and fair playground. But hey, even the former head of the admission department of MIT faked her credentials. No double standard, please.

China glories its self in statistics. Seems to be a national obsession to be the biggest or most at everything. Education stats are part of this mania. China proudly reports the number of university grads by major and claims educational superiority. Cool, but more than 90%, maybe more than 95% of students entering university complete their degrees as scheduled.

Most Chinese universities require at least one, and as many as five papers be published prior to graduation for a bachelor degree. Students are forced to pay to have their papers appear in print. The pressure to publish millions of original papers each year creates impressive statistics but drives academic dishonesty.

China never has had one of her residents win a Nobel prize. As this source of nationalist anguish is perceived as some sort of discrimination, the answer is found in numbers rather than quality.

Some measures of innovation, or national technology competence, use the number of papers published to measure relative national performance. In recent years, China's volume of submitted and published papers has soared causing some traditional measurements to report China as an oncoming technology giant. This fits well into the propaganda facade China seeks to erect.

What else can be expected of students trained to cut and paste their way to academic success and then expected to support national goals.

A shame really, bright young minds are being turned to plagiarism and research dishonesty to just to get the numbers up.

Economy with the highest developing rate is experiencing these sort of academic issues is a kind of rust on the gold but on the optimistic side it can be observed that the people there really wants to be the contributor in the future super power's statistics but the way they are adopting should be avoided.

Get used to it. It is a common thing we are experiencing now. This kind of behavior seemingly derive from the students or scientists themselves, but actually is forced by the failed educational theory. Try to get away from this circumstance, esp. the university.